jackmott42

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by jackmott42 7d ago
The best proc gen experience I have had is with minecraft modpack called hexxit. The world is procedural generated, but then there is a library of ~200+ hand built structures/features that are scattered throughout the generated terrain
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by jackmott42 2mo ago
It is very easy to do the math on the aerodynamics, even at running speeds it isn't insignificant. It drives me crazy that many pro marathoners are in flappy clothes, or big hair cuts! In a mile it could be between 1 and 7 tenths, depe
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by jackmott42 2mo ago
Because most humans don't really try, not limited to east africans.
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by jackmott42 2mo ago
The mile record has dropped due to equipment (tracks and shoes) and pacing innovation since the very first. And I repeat this all the time but nobody listens: modern shoes are fast because of the special foam and light weight, the carbon
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by jackmott42 2mo ago
I started programming at ~8 and as a kid you often are sure the compiler is wrong, and it never is. (maybe once, have a vague memory of it) Then years later I started playing with Nim when it was still in beta, I think I found 3 compiler bu
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by jackmott42 3mo ago
Why do people reply with this "it was always american" response? Do you feel like it is necessary to protect RocketLab or something? It was founded by a guy in new zealand with the first launch complex and first launches coming ou
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by jackmott42 3mo ago
Aside from the website being annoying, the story is horrific, a doctor speed running patient interactions with pre canned snippets. Disgusting.
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by jackmott42 3mo ago
A reminder that in a recent Paul Graham blog post, he vowed to help the 2nd Trump Admin crush woke youth, and asserted that racism isn't bad as the left thinks. In the following weeks we saw Elon do two Nazi salutes in front of the pre
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by jackmott42 3mo ago
There isn't going to be a lot of improvement in overall EV performance/capability from better motors. Existing, boring motors are already close to 100% efficient, already small, and already powerful. Advancements here chip away a
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by jackmott42 4mo ago
supply and demand as always
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by jackmott42 4mo ago
In countries where students perform better, they do the opposite of your plan. Resources are pumped into the failing schools to get them to do better. You seem to be just arguing for even more privatization in American which is awful, the
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by jackmott42 4mo ago
Nate was a huge outlier in that prediction, he gave trump a better chance than almost anyone else that I can recall, so why are you mad at him about that? What made me mad is Nate seemed to turn into a MAGA troll himself after that election
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by jackmott42 4mo ago
It did until oligarchs bought it.
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by jackmott42 4mo ago
Why does anyone want to work for companies run by such awful people in the first place? I saw me CEO make up a whole new persona to suck up the new nazi administration I would be gone the next day.
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by jackmott42 4mo ago
I recently started a game project in Rust aided by Claude Code because I asked myself that same question. I like Rust, but it is definitely harder than C# for me. But with the AI aid, doesn't seem to matter which language I use. So I
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by jackmott42 5mo ago
With some care about what features to use and when, F# can be very fast. Which is nice, use functional paradigm when you want, or low level imperative code in hot loops if you need. But yeah if you use linked lists and sequences and immutab
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by jackmott42 5mo ago
I think you are right that we should focus on the fact that the president raped children, invaded Iran with no plan and for no reason when he promised not to start a war, and violates the constitution and law daily without consequence. We a
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by jackmott42 5mo ago
The disingenuous people who discredit climate change will do so no matter how serious people act. There is no point in changing behavior on their account.
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by jackmott42 5mo ago
Yes, our tech leaders would rather send america into fascism that have any impediments put in the way of their business plans. It is disgusting, and sad.
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by jackmott42 5mo ago
>It's physically not possible at our current level of technology to make this "safer" Absolutely it is, if NASA was not constrained by congress to use shuttle components to build the spacecraft, they could have had double
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by jackmott42 6mo ago
We are not in a democratic setting in America any more, the people in power are willing to start wars to protect pedophiles, they are willing to hire Nazi thugs to shoot your wives in the face. They are willing to bribe supreme court justic
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by jackmott42 7mo ago
oh, paul grahams eassays! Speaking of, how are his efforts to help this administration cut down no woke youth? Does he still think racism isn't as bad a "the left" thinks, after Elon's Nazi salute and the thousands of IC
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by jackmott42 7mo ago
You are naive, and assisting a fascist regime.
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by jackmott42 3y ago
The racing frames here don't break as a rule as OP suggests, if one does there was a manufacturing flaw or a crash/impact of some kind. A few grams of weight does not have enough impact TT bike performance enough to make it worth
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by jackmott42 3y ago
What a terrible human being, why would anyone want to be involved with Y Combinator or any of their companies that would put up with this sort of behavior?
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by jackmott42 3y ago
There used to be a video on youtube of a carbon mountain bike fork, and they were SMASHING it with a ball peen hammer, repeatedly. It did do a little damage but remained rideable, and was in much better shape than the metal forks they smash
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by jackmott42 3y ago
This has no practical impact on actual bicycles though, in practice they all fail, at similar rates.
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by jackmott42 3y ago
"There is no speed benefit for a non professional on a carbon frame" Yes there is, I and many people have directly measured it.
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by jackmott42 3y ago
Carbon fiber bikes have two main properties that can affect performance: 1. they are a little lighter. This doesn't matter nearly as much as most cyclists think, but it does matter a bit. If you race competitively in the mountains, you
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by jackmott42 3y ago
That is a myth. Material alone doesn't determine this, and modern road bikes are on 28mm tires at ~70psi so this isn't nearly as much of an issue as it was 20 years ago (and it wasn't a real issue then either)

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